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HeWaits You're being deliberately obtuse. I'm not going to post any more on this because you are not understanding it. Let's let Johns Hopkins weigh in on your questions, shall we?
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus-deaths-cdc/
On the seriousness of a virus that many people contract without even knowing it. (oh and by the way, the people who don't know they have it aren't the people dying.) That should be obvious, but maybe not to you.
The report has sparked confusion on the topic and some misleading narratives on social media, but Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Justin Lessler emphasizes that these findings are not surprising. COVID-19 deaths are not easy to predict or prevent based on comorbidities, he says, and the virus is not only a concern for those with medical problems.
On people with comorbidities like your 78-year old woman who die of covid-19, and have it listed on their death certificate.
The importance of this CDC data is showing the comorbidities in people who have died with COVID-19, in hopes of better understanding the risk factors for death. For almost everyone, I think we can be confident they would have lived longer without COVID-19.
On comorbidities caused by the coronavirus.
But it's important to understand that some of the comorbidities listed are actually downstream effects of COVID-19—meaning they are symptoms. For example, respiratory failure. Someone could have on their death certificate that they died of both COVID and respiratory failure, but that probably means that COVID-19 caused the respiratory failure, which caused them to die. It's impossible for us to know the individual scenarios from death certificates, but the prevalence of respiratory factors [in the CDC findings] are consistent with being downstream conditions.
To some extent I think some people are willfully misinterpreting to treat this as a "gotcha" moment to undermine the seriousness of COVID-19. They're not taking time to actually understand the data.
On confirmation of the level of coronavirus deaths in the US.
We can observe trends from the number of deaths reported each year, on a weekly basis. When we see large deviations in the numbers for a time period, we call that excess deaths. Looking at 2020 since March, the raw number of excess deaths is 200,000 more people than a normal year. When we try to understand that, COVID-19 is the most rational and likely explanation. If you don't believe it's COVID-19, try to pinpoint why this year has been so different than any other. Why would a new disease that kills people not be the cause?
The bottom line is that covid-19 kills, and continues to kill, and the number of deaths reported on death certificates tracks with the number of excess deaths reported in the US, as one would expect if the cause was the virus.
Be safe and stay healthy. The second round is coming and it will be much worse than what we've seen to date.